Why Say Beloved?

 

Why say "Beloved"
to your own existence?
Why bow to the glory
of the radiance
You are?
Surely, for the sake of love.
Your chest is filled
with countless stars,
therefore you name
your own beauty
the Lord of Hosts.
Your cosmos witnesses
and humbly adores
her own majesty.
You long to Other your Self.
Therefore serpents and angels,
oaks and meadows,
rocks, streams, creatures
who run, or swim, or fly
all shout a single pronoun:
Thou!
Do you want to understand
why 1 + 1 = 0?
Why emptiness overflows
with dancing gods,
voluptuous demons?
Why silence roars
like a hungry lion?
Then you must burn
to nothing in the fire
of your own heart,
until nothing remains
but the heart of the Friend.